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Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention, I come before you at this auspicious hour, on behalf of a large body of the unrepresented citizens of your embryo Commonwealth, and at this instigation and invitation, to ask you, in their name, for reasons which they and I are prepared to give and substantiate, to so honor your present important public work by recognizing their inalienable rights and interests, that the name of Washington, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, may also be the first in the grand galaxy of States to wheel majestically into her proper orbid [sic] in harmony with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, to which your silenced and unrepresented citizens have ever remained loyal, despite the legal and political disabilities of which they complain. I thank you, Gentlemen of the Convention, for the

Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention, I come before you at this auspicious hour, on behalf of a large body of the unrepresented citizens of your embryo Commonwealth, and at this instigation and invitation, to ask you, in their name, for reasons which they and I are prepared to give and substantiate, to so honor your present important public work by recognizing their inalienable rights and interests, that the name of Washington, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, may also be the first in the grand galaxy of States to wheel majestically into her proper orbid [sic] in harmony with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, to which your silenced and unrepresented citizens have ever remained loyal, despite the legal and political disabilities of which they complain. I thank you, Gentlemen of the Convention, for the